Category Archives: Randomness

Oh, make the hurting stop! Just one simple example; a tiny, innocent looking fragment out of the tax form EÜR (Einnahmenüberschussrechnung nach § 4 Abs. 3 EStG für das Kalenderjahr 2009): Line 5 asks if I closed my business or sold it in 2009. … Continue reading →

Randomness contains its surprises (take my probably favorite Dilbert cartoon of all times, the accounting department’s random number generator: Are you sure that’s random? That’s the problem with randomness: You can never be sure). One of such surprises is non-transitivity … Continue reading →

For the next season of Fußball-Bundesliga, we’ll use kicktipp for betting on the results, as we have in the previous seasons. This time, we want to introduce additional dummies, ‘Heimsieg’ (home victory) and ‘Zufall’ (randomness), as yardsticks of predictive performance … Continue reading →